CIS Sports

NWSB Insider Dave B brings us another Northwest Athlete Profile of a hometown hero in Victoria. Eli Pasquale was a leader and a champion for Canada and the Univerisity of Victoria Vikings. At the height of just 6’1” tall, Eli Pasquale is the University of Victoria’s All-Time leading scorer; he was inducted to the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003 and to the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

After an impressive 6-2 record in their 2011 season, the UBC Thunderbirds are instead chalking up an 0-8 finish. The unintentional administrative error was discovered by the athletic department during a standard year-end review.

It was supposed to be a year of rebuilding for UBC Basketball, the players lost to graduation would leave too big of a gap to fill. Gone are backcourt mates Josh Whyte and Alex Murphy, along with forward Brent Malish, the later two being five year staples at the Point Grey campus.

UVIC mens basketball opened up play last weekend at the House-Laughton men’s basketball tournament. The pre-season tournament was the first test of head coach Craig Beacamp’s summer recruiting missions that saw nine new additions to the squad this year ahead of the start of the season November 4th.